The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-03-27
Plain a. a Chimera.

Recent fnSliSn cOlSttltr reports SHOW
that American iron and steel manufac-
turers are competing seriously with Eng
| lish wares in foreign markets. American
agricultural implements are dispiacing
| those of English make in southern Rus
STA. American hay-forks and horse-rakes
| are used because the teeth are of better
quality than those made in England; the
American shovel is i'm demand because
it is cheaper than the English article;
while American latch locks and some
| other articles of hardware are said to be
solid and highly finished, and to sell at
| about half the English prices. In Chill
the consul at Santiago points out that the
Americans are taking what was English
trade in hardware because they make
| cheap articles to suit the pockets of the
buyers, whereas the British continue To
produce wares that are too dear for the
Chilians.
The Boston Herald. commenting ON
these facts, observes:
Indeed it would seem that in finished
hardware our manufacturers are making
decided advances, agreeing in this with
Mr.. Sargent, the hardware manufactu-
rer i'm Connecticut, who said that, where
the price of an article was determined
| by the great amount of labor in il, he
could export it; but where it was deter
mined by the weight and cost of the
raw material. the protective tariff made
| expectation impossible.
In other words where the skilled
| American workman has to contend with
the pauper labor of England he produces
cheaper and superior goods which run
the English goods out of foreign markets,
| but when it is a suggestion of the bulk
of raw material, of which this country
produces so abundantly, this aountry can
not produce goods which can be sold in
of course, proves that the American
workman needs To be protected from the
pauper labor of England by the Chinese
wall of a protective tariff. For, if the
| American workman needs a protective
tariff, mountain high.to prevent pauper-
made goods being brought into this
country to take his own market from
| him, it is perfectly plain to one used to
studying the matter through Pennsyl-
| vania- made spectacles, that his employ
| err can not undersell the English manu-
| facturer in foreign markets unless the
American workman is protected at home
against the English workman by a high
| protective tariff.
IL requires a special education of
course, tn make the average mind COM
| prehend this. 1t does not agree with
common sense, but then the man who
applies common sense to matters of
politics and American political economy
| is either Democrat or man with
British gold in his pocket. John Sher-
man. James G. Blaine and all that clan
have been engaged in demonstrating
this for years. Protect us from Brit
ish pauper labor" cries the American
friend of the workingman- Protect
us from American goods" appeals the
British manufacturer and exporter.
American hardware is driving En-
glish work out of southern Europe, al
though the latter has far less carriage To
reach the market. because the American
goods are solid. highly finished and sells
at half the English prices The result.
of course. of the American tariff. Eng
land is losing the Chilian trade because
American hardware is cheap. Let US
thank the American tariff. American
farm products, raised by farmers who
have to pay the tariff duties on most of
the necessities of life, are running the
British farmer in his own home mar
kets. Another result, Of course, Of the
high tariff on manufactures. II there
| Were no tariff, America could not COM